False Advertising

False Advertising

Bratwurst has reached the the level of “Terribly Desperate” as he gave YHC the keys to Swift this morning.

WARM-UP

Head to the Ballantyne Meadows entrance of Ballantyne Country Club for dynamic stretching.

THE THANG

Run the lovely rolling hills of BCC with 5x :30/1:00/2:00 hill repeats with :30/:30/:1:00 recovery periods.

Head back to COT with each PAX calling a random fartlek distance

MOLESKINE

YHC reviewed recent Swift workouts and leaned towards a ladder, but seeing a few of those already this year, felt the need to call some hills.  The plan was posted on Slack Monday and the one comment was not the most enthusiastic so YHC spent the night wondering if he should call an audible.  When that idea was thrown out upon arrived at the start, Frasier commented, “That’s not as advertised,” and Soft Pretzel said, “Who’s the Q? Do what you want?”  Not really sure there was a strong ‘want’ to do the hills, but it seemed overdue so we stuck with the plan.  It was also noted that it was only about 40 degrees at the start, not the expected 45 degrees — another claim of false advertising.

Goonie is a silent beast (Silent but deadly?) out there saving his best runs for the latter stages as the final hills of BCC ate us up.  Frasier kept us on the right path within BCC, with Soft Pretzel as the #2 keeping an eye on him.  Once we started the return trip fartleks, Frasier had the audacity to call a long stretch run to the Ballantyne Hotel entrance, but then Wingman followed it up with another one to the Johnston crosswalk with little rest of his own — big move!  After waiting through the return of pre-pandemic traffic on Johnston, Atlas felt rested and called the long return to COT to wrap up the morning.

Great work, guys, on some vicious hills and thanks for the encouragement to stick with the plan even when it’s not the easy route.